 | William Blades - Book-worms - 1880 - 158 pages
...Dressings and Dryings as the parts of old Paper necessarily have suffer'd. And indeed when PI. VI. p. 62. I consider what a Heap of Saw-dust or Chips this little...continually nourished and supply'd by the Materials convey'd into the Stomach and fomented by the Bellows of the Lungs." The picture or "image" which accompanies... | |
 | William Blades - Agentes destructores del libro - 1888 - 192 pages
...Society. Fo. London, j66f. No.!. '• No. 3. — Anobium, natural s!ze. No. J. — Anobium, magnified. this little creature (which is one of the teeth of...continually nourished and supply'd by the materials convey'd into the stomach and fomented by the bellows of the lungs." The picture or "image," which... | |
 | Anthologies - 1888 - 496 pages
...creatures being able yet further to work upon those stubborn parts, and reduce them into another form. this little creature (which is one of the teeth of...continually nourished and s.upply'd by the materials convey'd into the stomach, and fomented by the bellows of the lungs ; and in so contriving the most... | |
 | William Blades - Book-worms - 1888 - 200 pages
...of the Royal Society. Fo. London, 1665. No. 2.—Anobium, natural size. No. 3.—Anobium, magnified. this little creature (which is one of the teeth of...continually nourished and supply'd by the materials convey'd into the stomach and fomented by the bellows of the lungs." The picture or "image," which... | |
 | Anthologies - 1888 - 438 pages
...pass'd through so many scourings, washings, dressings, and dryings, as the parts of old paper must necessarily have suffered ; the digestive faculty,...continually nourished and supply'd by the materials convey'd into the stomach, and fomented by the bellows of the lungs ; and in so contriving the most... | |
 | Robert Hooke - Combustion, Theory of - 1906 - 66 pages
...scourings, washings, dressings and dryings, as the parts of old Paper must necessarily have suffer'd ; the digestive faculty, it seems, of these little creatures...continually nourished and supply'd by the materials convey'd into the stomach, and fomented by the bellows of the lungs ; and in so contriving the most... | |
 | Robert Hooke - Microscope and microscopy - 1926 - 80 pages
...scourings, washings, dressings and dryings, as the parts of old Paper must necessarily have suffer'd ; the digestive faculty, it seems, of these little creatures...continually nourished and supply'd by the materials convey'd into the stomach, and fomented by the bellows of the lungs ; and in so contriving the most... | |
 | Paul Welberry Kent, Allan Chapman - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 398 pages
...example, he wrote of the 'Book-worm': When I consider what a heap of sawdust or chips this little creature conveys into its intrals, I cannot chuse but remember...continually nourished and supply'd by the materials convey'd into the stomach, and fomented by the bellows of the lungs. This not only provides an indication... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 284 pages
...chips this little creature (which is one of the teeth of Time) conveys into its intrails" Hooke admires "the excellent contrivance of Nature" in placing in...Animals such a fire, as is continually nourished and supply 'd by the materials convey'd into the stomach, and fomented by the bellows of the lungs; and... | |
 | Robert Hooke - Magnifying glasses - 2007 - 381 pages
...thw little creature (which is one of the teeth of Time) conveys into its in^ trals. I cannot chufe but remember and admire the excellent contrivance of Nature, in placing in Animals fuch a fire, as is continually nouriihed and fupply'd by the materials convey 'd into the ftomach.,... | |
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And indeed, when I consider what a heap of Sawdust or chips this little creature (which is one of the teeth of Time) conveys into its intrals, I cannot chuse but remember and admire the excellent contrivance of Nature, in placing in Animals such a fire,... 